Please help!!

9th October 2011, 17:15

Hi guys,

had a problem for a while but iv run out of money as i cant afford to keep filling it up with oil, plus dads getting pissed cos the drives a state lol

there seems to be a lot of fresh oil coming out from around a plate thing next to the join between the head and rocker cover on the right hand side of the engine (looking at the engine from front of car), but i have no idea what it is

Heres a pic, hopefully someone could help me to find out what it is and its job as there seems to be a small rubber seal around where it joins the head

thanks

Lewis

9th October 2011, 17:17

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9th October 2011, 17:17

9th October 2011, 17:52

that looks to me like the place where a coilpack is usually bolted to with HT leads, has it been converted to overhead coilpack and blanked off?

9th October 2011, 18:04

^^as above id guess that ^^

but as for leak if its coming from around that plate then its most likely trickling from rocker cover. take that cover off and clean around and get away as much leaked out oil as you can. replace with new gasket and see if that helps

9th October 2011, 19:57

already replaced the gasket in the summer, i thought all vtr's and vts' had over head coilpacks??

9th October 2011, 19:58

can you get a bigger picture for us pal?

9th October 2011, 20:13

not this evening defo tomoz, i need to find out asap as i think this is where the leaks coming from, had a search but i cant find any pics of a mk1 vtr engine bay

lol

9th October 2011, 20:15

have a look at some progress threads on here your bound to find one lol. but that plate does look to me like its an old coil pack location

9th October 2011, 20:17

http://www.saxperience.com/forum/showthread.php?t=87916
there you go mate see if that helps on your engine.

as we said old coil pack location

9th October 2011, 20:17

looks like you had ya cam cover changed to a silvertop though.

9th October 2011, 20:23

mines an s reg and iv only ever seen one other pic of an s reg engine bay exactly the same

9th October 2011, 20:25

hmmmm my mate had a t-reg but it was the 1 long coil pack behind cam cover

unless thats when it was changed

9th October 2011, 20:28

yeah just had a look at the link and see what you mean!, i have no idea whats wrong with this car its just one thing after another! surely it'd be quite hard to covert to a overhead coilpack?, do you know whats underneath it?

9th October 2011, 20:30

well mines is the overhead one but lets say it had the coil pack on the side. only thing under there is top of gearbox and a few wires and maybe a sensor.

EDIT: off the top of my head

9th October 2011, 20:32

but as for the leak then get checking for cracks on the block around that arear. remove that plate etc and take a real close look around

9th October 2011, 20:33

well on quite a few pics of others engine bays, theres a small black of metal attached to the head where the end of the cam shaft roughly is? behind the thermostat?

9th October 2011, 20:34

cheers mate, will sort it tomoz

9th October 2011, 20:35

if its been converted, maybe its ill fitting. get an original one on, but then i know nothng about VTR's..

9th October 2011, 20:38

good point. if it has had a conversion. just give it a good clean check around, if you cant see anything run the engine on idle whilst looking around too. good luck with it mate